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| I:6738 | IndyGeorgia ( 4113.60 points) | April 09, 2018 07:54pm |
Should the New Democratic and Green Parties be separate provincial parties? [Link] [Link]
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points) | April 09, 2018 10:21pm |
Probably.
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| I:9626 | Bojicat ( 912.46 points) | September 14, 2018 10:46am |
In sympathy with this border-containment trend worldwide, the CAQ is set to host a remarkable 70-seat royal feast this Oct. 1st [Link] ; an extraordinary 3x climb up from its quotidian 21-seat ploughman's lunch of a showing when it started just a few years ago. Should this come to pass, the CAQ emerges from out of the wilderness to become the dominant party of Quebec - holding almost double the combined projected seats of the collapsed Liberals and once-fierce Parti Quebecois.
This is historic - yet unnoticed and un-noted (for now).
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points) | September 18, 2018 10:43am |
After a horrible debate with poor performance by CAQ leader François Legault, CAQ is starting to dip in the polls.
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| I:9626 | Bojicat ( 912.46 points) | September 18, 2018 02:03pm |
Thanks, RP. The trouble is, last night's debate was an entirely-in-English sparring match [Link] . Liberal Party leader Philippe Couillard led the night, but he comfortably holds the Anglophone minority in the cusp of his hands anyway. Trying to lasso up more of it in Francophonie Quebec is not a winning formula. Francophones, for the most part, did not tune in. Those that did, probably could sympathize with an English-gargling Legault.
The CAQ identifies with French-speaking Quebec nationalists. It has successfully supplanted the close-to-extinct Parti Quebecois. It wants to impose language tests on non-French speaking immigrants and maintain the English-language restrictions smothering Quebec today. This platform cannot appeal much to Anglophones, and the CAQ will not likely stiffle its blare for it (the CAQ has about 14% support among English-only speakers, acc. to polls).
My sense is that Legault knew had little to win or lose at the event last night, even if he wowed with the debating skills of Demosthenes.
More critical is how the four do at the French-language debate later this week.
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